This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...
As students return to class this week, Oregon schools face greater pressure than ever to fix a nagging problem: Far too many of their students are poor writers. Starting with this year's seniors, ...
There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...
Kudos to Education Week for rolling out a collection of articles on elementary writing instruction, a vital area of literacy development that fails to get the attention it deserves. As EdWeek’s ...
In a world where digital devices are everywhere, it’s easy to wonder if handwriting still matters. We’ve all heard the ...
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Philanthropists will pay to ­improve teaching and learning for 200,000 students in 50 of Australia’s poorest communities, ...
Fiction and poetry certainly have a place in America's schools. But when students don't learn how to articulate ideas, their options erode -- and our whole society is worse off for it. Since the ...
The authors explored whether explicit-strategy instruction combined with whole-language instruction would improve third-grade students' spelling more than either explicit-strategy instruction alone or ...
NEW YORK, June 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A delegation of elementary school students from Wales, United Kingdom visited the United States to engage in writing instruction with P.S. 60-The Woodhaven ...